Film Symposia

Past Film Symposia Include:

Godfrey Reggio, Koyaanisqatsi (1982)

Dziga Vertov, The Man with the Movie Camera (1929)

Charlie Chaplin, City Lights (1931)

Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, Singing in the Rain (1952)

Yasujiro Ozu, Tokyo Story (1953)

Kurosawa, Seven Samurai (1954)

Hitchcock, Vertigo (1958)

Michelangelo Antonioni: L’Avventura (1960)

Jean Luc Godard, Vivre sa vie (1962)

Ingmar Bergman, Persona (1966)

Tarkovsky, Stalker (1979)

Satyajit Ray, The Apu Trilogy: Pather Panchali; Aparajito; The World of Apu) (1955-9)

Ousmane Sembene, Ceddo (1977)

Abbas Kiarostami, Close-Up (1990)

Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather (1972)

David Lynch, Blue Velvet (1986)

The Coen Brothers, The Big Lebowski (1998)

Werner Herzog, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)

Wim Wenders, Paris, Texas (1984)

Wong Kar-wai, In the Mood for Love (2000)

Luchino Visconti, The Leopard (1963)

Claire Denis, Beau Travail (1999)

Sergio Leone, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)

Michael Curtiz, Casablanca (1942)

Billy Wilder, Sunset Blvd. (1950)

Carol Reed, The Third Man (1949)

Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Ridley Scott, Blade Runner (1982)

Charles Burnett, Killer of Sheep (1978)

Haile Gerima, Bush Mama (1979)

Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing (1989)

Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now (1979)

Terrence Malick, The Thin Red Line (1998)

Chris Marker, Sans soleil (1983)

Stan Brakhage: selections from An Anthology: Mothlight (1963; 3 minutes 13 seconds), Eye Myth (1967; 9 seconds), The World Shadow (1972; 2 minutes 24 seconds), The Garden of Earthly Delights (1981; 1 minute 43 seconds); Black Ice (1994; 1 minute 49 seconds); Study in Color and Black and White (1993; 1 minutes 35 seconds); Stellar (1993; 2 minutes 19 seconds), The Dark Tower (1999; 2 minutes 19 seconds); Persian Series 1-3 (1999; 5 minutes 54 seconds), Chinese Series (2003; 2 minutes 18 seconds)

Maya Deren, Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)